Born in Boston, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Howard
and Anna (Lillie) Howard
Wife of
Samuel Somes Gilman D.D.
— married
25 Sep 1819 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mother of
Abby Louisa (Gilman) Porcher, Caroline (Gilman) Jervey, Eliza Webb (Gilman) Lippitt and Annie Margaret (Gilman) Bowen
Died
at age 93
in Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Biography
Caroline (Howard) Gilman is Notable.
Caroline was born in 1794 to Samuel Howard and Anna Lillie in Boston, Massachusetts.
Caroline Howard was one of the most popular female authors of the mid 19th century.
She married Rev. Samuel Gilman in 1819. They had one daughter, Caroline Howard.
She was an editor for one of the first American children's magazines.
She passed away in 1888.
Sources
- http://uudb.org/articles/carolinegilman.html Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
- https://books.google.ca/books?id=xxd451POnpY Southern Writers: A new biographical dictionary
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Caroline by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Caroline:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Caroline by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Caroline:
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~1.56%
Ellen Osborne
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Christopher Janney :
23andMe, GEDmatch M965569 [compare]
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